Former Hollyoaks star Davinia Taylor has publicly blasted train staff after alleging they left her stranded at London Euston station. The actress, known for playing Jude Cunningham on the Channel 4 soap, claimed she was denied boarding a train to Birmingham despite arriving three minutes before its scheduled departure.
Social Media Rant
Taking to social media, Taylor unleashed a furious rant, branding the staff as 'horrible' and 'inhuman'. She accused them of 'sniggering' at her as she attempted to board the train. In a now-deleted video, according to the Mirror, she was seen sprinting through the station with a large suitcase while fuming: 'I f*****g hate little s***houses like this.'
The mum-of-four elaborated: 'I was there, the train was there, I was three minutes, I sprinted through Euston. I said: "Look, I'm a woman on her own. I bought the ticket." They'd not even locked the gates. He said: "Sorry love, you can't go, you've gotta be longer before."'
Mocking and Criticism
Taylor mocked the station worker, saying: 'As I said to him: "Imagine if that was your mum." That's the f***ing idiots you're dealing with. Empty it was, empty. So now I've gotta buy a new ticket. I've been working my a**e off, and these little nasty, nasty little f*****g clipboards.'
She continued: 'I said: "Do you know what? You're not even human." The platform was empty. Empty, and they both sniggered, sniggered, what the f**k is wrong with people, when they've got a f*****g uniform on. I hope their mothers are embarrassed. Horrible, horrible brats.'
Caption and Train Manager Advice
Taylor captioned the video: 'Clipboard computer says no, jobsworth, not my problem. K**heads. Why are SOME of these people in the travel business set on default to be unhelpful? Btw I travel Avanti loads and have met absolute angels... but these two. Yuk.'
She claimed a train manager on her next service advised her to report the staff, stating: 'My lovely train manager on the next train told me to report them and this sort of attitude and behaviour has to stop. As a woman travelling alone - my point being I had massive cases from work and they could see me struggling and just smirked - it's all very passive aggressive behaviour that some of them seems to relish in. I was there in time they just blocked me.'
Avanti West Coast Policy
According to the Avanti West Coast website, platforms at London Euston close two minutes before a train departs. A spokesperson for Avanti West Coast told the Mirror: 'We are aware of the customer's experience travelling yesterday and we are currently looking into the circumstances of what happened.'
Backlash and Response
While many followers supported Taylor, one accused the millionaire's daughter of being 'entitled'. Taylor hit back: 'Train left at 16:29 I was at the top of the train at 16:25 with my QR code in the phone by the time he said that there's nothing he can do get the next one to Birmingham it was 16:26. I was asking him to radio the lady who was talking to the conductor next to the train and he said no can't do that. Then after another min he said I have to be there three min before. And sniggered.'
